Trace Compass is a Java tool for viewing and analyzing any type of logs or traces. Its goal is to provide views, graphs, metrics, etc. to help extract useful information from traces, in a way that is more user-friendly and informative than huge text dumps.

It also provides support for custom text or XML parsers that can be added right from the graphical interface. It is available both as a stand-alone RCP application, or as standard Eclipse plugins. It supports Windows, Mac and Linux. End users can download a pre-compiled package and start using it right away. Developers can create plugins to the framework to add support for new trace types, or new analysis to existing trace types.